Interesting profile on Emanuel in Fortune Magazine. I like that it starts with a burn of President Bush....tribathlete!
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Nov 06, 2008 9:44:46 am PST #9778 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
-t - Nov 06, 2008 9:44:49 am PST #9779 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, Corwood, how scary!
Gudanov - Nov 06, 2008 9:45:23 am PST #9780 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Yikes!
lisah - Nov 06, 2008 9:49:49 am PST #9781 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
from the Fortune story:
'You're not one of those tribathletes, are you, Mr. President? You know-steam, sauna, shower?'
awesome! I'm totally a tribathlete! Or, I would be given the resources.
Jesse - Nov 06, 2008 9:55:57 am PST #9782 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, Corwood! Stay in the house!!
Tom Scola - Nov 06, 2008 10:02:56 am PST #9783 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Baby monkey gets his own guard dog
A Chinese zoo has given an orphan monkey its own guard dog to stop it being bullied by bigger primates.
Hayden - Nov 06, 2008 10:04:30 am PST #9784 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Once the garbage truck passed, I decided I'd feel better with the kids at daycare and me at work, so we hurriedly loaded up and left around 10 ("Serpentine!," I told my 3-year-old on the way to the car, and he rightfully looked at me like I was nuts). But still: crazy! The cops had a shoot-out with a guy at our neighborhood grocery that's about ten blocks away!
msbelle - Nov 06, 2008 10:07:31 am PST #9785 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
("Serpentine!," I told my 3-year-old on the way to the car, and he rightfully looked at me like I was nuts)
priceless
also, glad you are safe and the showdown seems over.
Hayden - Nov 06, 2008 10:12:02 am PST #9786 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Thanks! I just hate that I got up extra-early for work and thus missed out on the sweet, delicious sleep I could have been having instead of being all tense while I watched the backyard for guys with guns.
Strega - Nov 06, 2008 10:14:30 am PST #9787 of 10001
Because paying the extra dollar isn't his intention. Getting the largest drink is his intention, and the price of that is an extra dollar. The dollar is a side-effect.
I can definitely see it this way, but yeah, the dollar requires some volition. It is not your ultimate goal to pay a dollar, but it doesn't happen without you choosing to do it.
I thought this other example in the paper was helpful: You want to enter your home. You unlock the door to do that. Unlocking the door is a means to an end, but it is also an intentional act -- you had to consciously decide to do it in order to achieve your goal. Like spending a dollar to get your drink. Whereas getting the commemorative cup did not require any extra action on your part.
The Asberger-y way seems more purely logical to me, which I'm sure is their point. It sort of helps me to think of it from the clerk's point of view: Did you ask to get a special cup? No. Did you agree to pay a dollar more? I'd say you did.